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Coulomb Technologies gets Australian distribution deal; Better Place looking Down under, too

Building out networks of publicly accessible charging points for electric vehicles is one of the biggest business opportunities that could be produced by a large scale transition to electric vehicles. With shorter range urban vehicles being the most likely BEVs to be useful to people, they will need somewhere to re-energize. Coulomb Technologies is one of a number of companies going down this path, along with Better Place. Coulomb has inked a distribution deal with ChargePoint Pty Ltd to install the Chargpoint outlets in Australia. The ... Read more →

Australian Premier lobbying for Volt built Down Under Jeremy Korzeniewski

As has been reported in the past, GM's Australian arm is waiting in eager anticipation for a Holden-badged version of the Chevy Volt to hit the market Down Under in 2012. That car will be ...

Australian fleets adopting Hyundai i30 diesels Sam Abuelsamid

Australia remains the home of big old rear wheel drive cars like the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon. However, that is starting to change as people seek to address climate change and rising fuel ...

Melbourne 2009: Toyota shows off HC-CV (Hybrid Camry Concept Vehicle) Jeremy Korzeniewski

In about twelve months, Toyota's Australian arm will begin producing its own Camry Hybrids. To celebrate the new contract, Toyota Australia has created a new concept called the HC-CV (Hybrid ...

Australian biofuel imports hurting SE Asian rainforests Sebastian Blanco

As anyone who has seen episode 2F13 of The Simpsons (aka Bart vs. Australia) knows, introducing foreign species into an environment can have dangerous effects. A real-world situation - not really ...

Australians get another all-electric car option with Energetique evMe 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

If you don't want to wait for a traditional automaker to put an electric car on the road, a conversion of an existing vehicle is one way to achieve gasoline freedom. Using the Mazda 2 as their chassis of choice, Energetique has done just that with their evMe. While it's not the first new-car ...

Better Place moves to Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We'll, that didn't take long. The announcement from Better Place about the next country planned for the electric vehicle expansion is here and we're off to Australia. Better Place announced the deal with AGL Energy and Macquarie Capital Group today, and there is more information coming in a ...

Holden to get Chevy Volt for Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It sounds as if the Australian market will be the third - behind the United States and Europe - to get a version of the Chevy Volt. In Europe, the Volt will be sold as either an Opel or a Vauxhall and in Australia it will be known as a Holden. The Volt, in its current Chevrolet guise, was ...

In Australia, Police fight "antisocial behavior" with Hummers 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hummers may be a bit controversial due to their highly conspicuous consumption, but it is exactly that prominence that Aussie Police hope to make use of in order to fight crime. Really, Hummers are hard to miss, and a fleet of five of them, even in relatively small H3 size, is sure to get noticed, ...

Australian study shows that planted trees capture less CO2 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A report issued by the Australian National University shows that unspoiled natural forests capture more carbon than artificially planted trees. The report states that this fact wasn't considered when planning counteracting actions against global warming by the IPCC. However, according to our source ...

LPG fueled Holden Commodores now only $400 more than gas after tax breaks 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Australians looking for a cheaper alternative to gasoline now have a very cost effective option with a dual fuel conversion being offered by Holden. The installation allows Commodores and derivatives to be operated on either LPG or gasoline. Holden recently dropped the conversion price of the system ...

NRMA: Australia needs a chain on EV charging stations, ethanol 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

NRMA Motoring & Services has just released its Jamison Group report known as A Road Map for Alternative Fuels in Australia: Ending our Dependence on Oil. In this report, the group suggests that Australia must act quickly to reduce its own dependence on foreign oil, which has increased by ...

Australian gov't to help GM, Ford fix fuel economy of large cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Australian auto market is an interesting beast. Many of the big players in America offer vehicles there which are completely different from what is available stateside. Ford and General Motors have continued to develop large, rear-wheel-drive passenger cars for the Australian market, and these ...

Toyota to build Camry hybrid in Australia and Thailand 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Toyota wants to double worldwide sales of its hybrids to over 1 million units a year within the next decade and is adding production capacity to hep it get there. In Japan today, Toyota announced plans to add production of Camry hybrids at two more plants in Australia and Thailand. The Thai plant ...

Hyundai may build Hybrid LPG Elantra in Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Liquified petroleum gas (commonly referred to as propane) has never really caught as a motor fuel in the U.S. although it is used by some fleets. However, drivers in Australia may have a new LPG-fueled vehicle to choose from. In fact they may have an LPG mild hybrid available soon at Hyundai ...

Australian Premier wants automakers to build domestic hybrids 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The premier of the Australian state of New South Wales is a big supporter of hybrid vehicles. The state government already has 355 hybrid vehicles in the the government fleet. However, as with governments everywhere, if something is made locally Morris Iemma would prefer to buy domestic. ...

Toyota Camry Hybrid production in Australia now likely 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It's looking as if Aussie readers hoping to drive greener might soon be able to do so in a locally-produced machine. The first word of Toyota's desire to build the Camry Hybrid in the land Down Under came in October at the Tokyo Motor Show. Without government handouts assistance, however, it wasn't ...

TH!NK could be put on sale in Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Th!nk UK managing director Richard Blundell said that their all-electric car could be put on sale in Australia without too much hassle. The reason? The Th!nk City, which Blundell pointed out is a real car and not a quadricycle (NEV), is designed to satisfy both EU and U. S. highway safety features ...

Reversing the flow to Australia, Volts headed down under 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Lutz has spoken yet again (imagine that!) and the subject once more is the Volt. This time it involves reversing some of the recent flow of machinery between Australia and U.S. GM's Holden division down under was tasked with developing a global rear wheel drive architecture for the company ...

Blade Runner: Australia's first zero-emissions car 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Looks like the Aussies are getting their very first zero-emissions-vehicle, the Blade Runner. Converted from the gasoline-powered Hyundai Getz (as seen above), the Blade Runner uses an AC motor powered by twin banks of lithium iron phosphate batteries and is capable of going up to 100 kilometers ...

Couple travels around Australia and gets 75 mpg in a standard Peugeot 308 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When you hear about a "3-liter car," what do you think of? For this story, think not of a car with a 3-liter engine but one that uses 3.13 liters of fuel per 100 km. That's 75 miles per gallon (U.S.) we're talking about a simple Peugeot 308. John and Helen Taylor traveled 14,580 km in Australia ...

Experts: Car travel must be cut 80 percent 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

By 2050, automobile travel would need to be cut (slashed, reduced, curtailed) by 80 percent. This is the finding in an upcoming paper to be published in the scholarly journal, Energy Policy. The authors claim that the drastic reduction will be needed to meet the emissions levels recommended by ...

Australia's pioneer carbon capture project 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

EESTech Inc., a company based in Brisbane, Australia, owns the Asia-Pacific rights to a system called the Purenergy CO2 Capture System (CCS). This is supposed to be the world's first pre-engineered, modular CO2 capture system that can be retrofitted onto existing power plants or any large ...

High gas prices send scooter sales up 400% in Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Australia's The Age newspaper reports a 400 percent increase, since 2003, in Scooter sales in Victoria, Australia due to the rising cost of gas and city parking fees. Australia-wide, 15,000 scooters were sold last year, a 300 percent increase since 2003. The Collingwood's Vespa House has seen sales ...

Air Car's first manufacturing plant will be located in Melbourne, cars sold in Australia next year 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Guy Negre and Louis Arnoux of MDI-Energy, the company behind the air car, are in Melbourne, Australia, demonstrating the air car technology to government and potential investors as part of a five year, $1.5 B plan to make and sell the cars in Australia, according to the Age. The first plant will be ...

Hybrids now approved for taxi service in Sydney, Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hybrid vehicles have already proven their worth and durability in big city taxi service in Manhattan over the past two years. By 2012 all New York city taxis will be required to have at least hybrid drive-trains. In 2006, officials in Sydney, Australia started their own hybrid taxi test to evaluate ...

Australian companies will use coal plant emissions and algae to make biodiesel 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

I wonder if this is the kind of thing the San Francisco Green Party would have a problem with: according to C-NET, two companies in Australia announced they will work together to run emissions from a coal plant through a bioreactor to make biodiesel. C-NET's Martin LaMonica writes that Linc Energy ...

Labor Party wins Australian election, moves to enforce Kyoto 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

After reaffirming a commitment to provide incentives for hybrid vehicle development in Australia, Kevin Rudd and his party soundly won this weekend's election. The new Prime Minister's first moves on Sunday were to examine how to go about having Australia ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas ...

Hyundai i30 diesel wins Green Car award in Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hyundai doesn't offer any diesel-powered cars in the US yet (a diesel V-6 is apparently coming to the Veracruz in a couple of years) but many of their overseas models use compression ignition. Also not available to American drivers is the new Hyundai i30 hatchback. That's a shame because automotive ...

Across Australia on 40% water and 60% waste mineral oil (Bios Fuel H2W+) 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The 20th World Solar Challenge took place in Australia in October. One of the more unusual fuel types in the Greenfleet Class of the Darwin to Adelaide race was used by a "Troupy," a lightly modified 1989 Toyota Landcruiser. According to Pure Energy Systems, the diesel-engined Troupy made the 3,000 ...

Queensland, Australia gov't declines to pass free registration for hybrids 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In the Australian state of Queensland, the majority party in the parliament has voted down a proposal to allow for free vehicle registration for hybrids. Opposition party member Rosemary Menkens had submitted the bill that would have provided an incentive for Australians to drive the more-efficient ...

Australians can now buy carbon-neutral car insurance 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Australian drivers who want to clear their environmental conscience can buy "carbon neutral" car insurance from ibuyeco. When you get your insurance through the company an extra surcharge will be applied to your premium to buy carbon offsets equivalent to the output of the insured car for the term ...

Panasonic World Solar Challenge 20th anniversary - October 21-28, 2007 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Solar-powered transportation owes a great deal to the participants of races and contests such as the World Solar Challenge in Australia. Starting in 1987, this biennial event covers a 3,000-kilometer route from tropical Darwin in the Northern Territory, to cosmopolitan Adelaide in South Australia. ...

Austrailian lawmakers argue global warming and sequestration 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

This story goes to show that the debate on global warming is still raging. Crucial to the debate in many people's minds is not whether the earth is warming, but whether or not man is causing it. That is the notion that four Australian governing party lawmakers are rejecting. Also up for debate is ...

Australian diesels: not so squeaky clean... 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Before the low sulfur diesel fuel that has become common here in the United States, it was impossible for automakers to install filters which would allow diesel engines to meet the requirements which were being imposed upon them. Fortunately, everything is coming together here in the States to allow ...

Australia: Hino Hybrid introduced, completes 24-hour endurance trial 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click image for high-res gallery This week in Australia, Hino unveiled its very first hybrid truck to the masses at the Queensland truck and machinery Show. The Hino Hybrid uses a parallel setup that combines a 4.0-liter 110kW (150 hp) four-cylinder common-rail turbodiesel with a 23kW electric ...

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